Getting run over by trucks 100 times a year for...

WORN OUT.

April 11, 1990

- BIRMINGHAM, ALA. — WORN OUT. Getting run over by trucks 100 times a year for charity has taken its toll on Tom Owen, a bodybuilder and stunt man who founded the King's Ranch homes for children in Alabama in 1976. Owen resigned Monday as director of the Chelsea-based homes for abused and neglected children, telling his directors in a letter: ''I am totally exhausted, physically and emotionally.'' Owen, 40, suffered two of the most serious injuries in his career in the past 13 months. In March 1989, he let a pickup loaded with 20 children run over his stomach while he posed for a National Enquirer photographer. That stunt sent him to the hospital with five broken ribs and lung and liver damage. In January, he broke a leg while running in Dothan as he trained to compete in a Mr. America contest.